How to Nail your Legal Interview
In yesterday’s Platforum9 session, Ross McGregor, an interview coach, former Linklaters trainee, and Akin Gump lawyer, argued that candidates “nail” legal interviews by putting themselves in the interviewer’s shoes, then communicating with clarity, structure, and purpose. He traced his own path from law studies and training at Linklaters (including London and Tokyo) to a move […]
From Big Law to Legal Tech
Julia Klingberg, a Swedish-qualified lawyer and attending Cornell as an LLM candidate in New York, draws on her experience as co-founder of the Legal Network of Sweden and Kindred to explore what it truly takes to move from an elite, traditional practice into legal tech and venture-building framing the transition not as a departure from […]
Demystifying the EU AI Act
Andrej Savin (Professor, CBS Law), Sid Ali Boutellis (Legal Tech Expert), and Yuliia Habriiel (Founder, the eyreACT) explored what the EU AI Act is actually designed to do, who it applies to, and what “getting compliant” looks like in practice, particularly for smaller firms and teams integrating third-party AI components into products and services. The […]
How to Ensure Junior Lawyers are Properly Trained in an Age of AI
Thomas Martin, CEO and Founder of LawDroid and an adjunct professor at Suffolk University Law School, offered a clear reframe of the profession’s anxiety: law is confusing tasks with purpose. Drafting and first-pass review may be automated, but the lawyer’s value endures, solving client problems and spotting new ones early, a point he likened to […]
Visualising to Understand Legal Documentation
Christian Mellado Hjortshøj (Co-founder, Juristic) traced the idea for his company back to his early legal training: diagrams, timelines, and structured task management are foundational tools for making sense of complex matters, yet most lawyers still build them in platforms never designed for that kind of work, Word and PowerPoint chief among them. He positioned […]
An Early Lawyer’s Perspective on AI Adoption
In our live session last Friday, George Hannah, a second-year solicitor apprentice at Lewis Silkin and founder of Best Practice, joined us as moderator to explore AI adoption from the “younger lawyer perspective” how it’s shaping day-to-day legal work, learning and training, client interactions, and early-career development; Hannah also shared insights from his LinkedIn writing […]
A Year in Arbitration: Recap and Highlights of 2025
Velimir Zivkovic moderated this live session with Miljana Bigovic, as the group took stock of 2025’s most consequential developments in arbitration and pressure-tested what they might mean in practice for 2026; Zivkovic framed the discussion as deliberately non-exhaustive, focusing on the developments most likely to shift drafting, procedure, and enforcement risk. The year’s headline developments […]
Coaching for Better Feedback and Time Management
Moderated by executive coach Ronald Given, with executive coach Lane Vanderslice as guest speaker, the live session formed part of Platforum9’s ongoing coaching series—building on previous summaries available on the platform—and closed with a preview of the next live discussion on 17 February (16:00 Vienna time) with senior partners from Wolf Theiss, focused on coaching […]
How Mergers in Legal Tech Enhance Sales
In a live session this week, moderated by Senne Mennes, co-founder of ClauseBase and now Customer Experience Lead at LawVu, he reflected on ClauseBase’s journey from a lawyer-built drafting tool inside Microsoft Word to becoming part of LawVu’s broader in-house legal workspace after its acquisition was announced in mid-December 2025. The discussion also tackled a […]
The Wellbeing Weekend: Energy, Focus and New Purpose
Patryk Zamorski (Leadership Consultant & Executive Team Coach), Zsofia Varnai (Senior Consultant, Legalis Global), and Antoinette Moriarty, psychotherapist & psychoanalyst; Director of Solicitor Services at the Law Society of Ireland) led a three-part mini-series that landed a simple, practical chain — energy → focus → meaning — with a core message that felt both obvious […]